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The following blog was written by Audrey Russo. Audrey's poignant and substantive work on the Middle East can be read at http://www.ediblog.com/--where she is the Managing Editor.

The Swiss: Their Cheese Is Not The Only Thing With Holes In It


When you hear the name of Switzerland...what comes to mind? Cheese? Chocolate? Watches? Clandestine bank accounts?

How about minarets? You know, the tall, slender tower most often found attached to a mosque, used in the traditional call to prayer for Muslims (Muslim criers)...5 times a day.

For your information...there are 90 mosques in Switzerland. Two (in Zurich and Geneva) have minarets, with three more planned. Muslims comprise 350,000 of a total population of 7.5 million Swiss (the majority come from Turkey and the Balkans). Christians comprise 77% of the total population.

Now, minarets didn't appear until 80 years after Mohammed's death. Many believe it was created to show the infidel world the superiority of Islam over other religions...precisely what the Quran teaches.

So, it's no wonder, that even in 'neutral' Switzerland...there has begun a movement to ban the building of minarets...

A bi-partisan, anti-minaret campaign, which began in Switzerland more than a year ago, and has increased in number...have been accused of corroding free expression with their poster, which shows a veiled woman in front of a Swiss flag pierced by several minarets. But they now accuse their critics of doing the same thing by banning the poster promoting the campaign ahead of a referendum next month.

According to CNSNews.com, the chairman of the anti-minaret campaign, Walter Wobmann, told a major Swiss news organization that it planned legal action against the cities and towns that have banned the poster, most likely on the basis of an infringement of free speech.

On November 29, thanks to the Swiss People's Party's (SVP) collection of signatures...the Swiss people will be able to vote on a referendum to the Swiss constitution that will be amended to add the line, “the construction of minarets is prohibited.”

Democracy still ROCKS...

But, apparently the Swiss government...in their downward moral spiral and their fear of ending up on the bloody end of an Islamic sword...has no problem squashing the free speech of it's native-born citizens...and acquiescing to Muslim superiority.

I guess their cheese is not the only thing with holes in it...I'm thinking there's one big cavern in between their leaders ears.

Shalom through strength...